he's part of this big debate on the fiscal cliff. george will, paul krugman of the "new york times." abc's matthew dowd and my favorites james carville and mary matalin. >>> george, we heard the lawmakers there as far apart as ever with just 23 days to go, is there any way out of it? >> conceptually, we're dealing here with splittable differences. we in our country had unsplittable differences. differences that you couldn't compromise on. this is doable. the problem is, george, since the second world war, our politics has been about allocating abundance. now, we're allocating scarcity. we're not very good at it. the real problem in the country today isn't the divisions that we talked so much about it's a consensus. as broad the republic, as deep the grand canyon, we should have a generous welfare state and not pay for >> it oh, boy. >> paul krugman sf. >> it's not just numbers. we have a basic difference in outlook. the republicans are unable to make concrete proposals. if you look, all of that talk that we just heard, deficits in ch